Our churches are open
St Lawrence Church – all week 9am – 4pm
Church of the Holy Rood – all week 9am – 4pm
All Saints Church – all week 9am – 4pm
November Services 2023
Sunday 26th November
Christ the King
9.15am Communion Service St Peter’s Church
10.30am Communion Service St Lawrence Church
4pm Afternoon Worship Holy Rood Church – TEMPORARILY CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
6pm Informal Evening Worship St Lawrence Church
10am Communion Service St Mary’s Church, Bentworth
December Services
Sunday 3rd December
8am BCP Communion Service St Lawrence Church
10am GAP Advent Service Alton Methodist Church
6pm Advent Carol Service St Lawrence Church
10am Communion Service St Mary’s, Lasham
6pm Service of Light St Peter & St Paul Shalden
Sunday 10th December
9.15am Communion Service St Peter’s Church
9.30am Communion Service Holy Rood Church
10.30am Communion Service St Lawrence Church
3pm Carol Service All Saints Church
Every Wednesday 10am, Holy Communion at All Saints Church
In church services – Covid Precautions
COVID Precautions in our churches Following the government changing of restrictions on 27th January 2022 the Ministry Team and the Churchwardens of both POTR and BLS have decided the following:
- Buildings will be well ventilated during meetings and services
- Hand sanitiser will be available at the entrance to all our buildings.
- It is government recommendation to wear face masks in large public gatherings and we encourage people to wear a face covering during meetings and services if it is felt for personal safety and/or the safety of others.
- Please choose to sit where you are comfortable and please be considerate of those who wish to keep a physical distance
- Refreshments will be served at appropriate meetings and services. Please feel free to stay in the buildings or if more comfortable take your refreshments outside
Communion Update May 2023
The receiving of Holy Communion Following Church of England guidance we returned some time ago to offering both bread and wine in our communion services with the use of the common cup. It has been really good to be able to do this. Recently this has been encouraged for all churches and all services as vaccination rates are high and serious cases of Covid are low.
But in a recent Diocesan message it said this about intinction – dipping of the wafer into the wine.
May we add a note about intinction. Whilst often done for the best of reasons (e.g., out of sensitivity to others when someone has a cold), we would strongly urge you to discourage intinction, whether by the communicant, priest or another. When fingertips accidentally touch the wine, Intinction significantly increases the possibility of any contamination.
So following this advice in the Parish we will now not be offering this. If you feel unable or uneasy to take from the common cup then please be assured that the Church’s teaching is that to receive the consecrated bread alone is to receive Christ in all his sacramental fullness and this has always been our inherited theological understanding.
Thank you